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Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: J M Dent, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. No 878 in the Everyman's Library. Dust jacket has shelf wear with small tears to top of spine and is not price clipped. Sunning to spine. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight.12mo. In very good condition for its age. 1932
Synopsis
Oblomov (Russian: Обломов is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature.
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- Bookseller
- Reader’s Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5553
- Title
- Oblomov
- Author
- Ivan Goncharov
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J M Dent
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Reader’s Books
Biblio member since 2019
Petworth, West Sussex
About Reader’s Books
Market town general antiquarian book shop specialising in literature, travel and history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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